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Something to Shout About

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1960s advertising agency sitcom starring Michael Medwin and Fenella Fielding,

1960s advertising agency sitcom starring Michael Medwin, Joan Sims and Fenella Fielding,

Something to Shout About: Series 3: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 3

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An American is in a rush for an air freshener script. Advertising agency comedy from 1961.

Something’s in the air at the agency when an American wants a new aerosol advert. Stars Eleanor Summerfield. From October 1961.

An American client asks Maggie for a UK advert to promote his new air freshener which promises to bring the smell of nature into our homes.  

But why does Mavis have to type it in the bath?  

"A light-hearted exposé of the advertising world!". Set in a London ad agency called 'Apsley, Addis, Cohen, Barbican, Blythe, Giddy & Partners'.
  
Michael Lightfoot.................... Michael Medwin
Maggie........................................ Eleanor Summerfield
Janet............................................. Fenella Fielding 
Mavis........................................... .Joan Sims
Adrian Beates........................... Nicholas Phipps
Other characters...................... Roy Dotrice

Script by Myles Rudge and Ronnie Wolfe

Producer John Simmonds

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1961.

Something to Shout About: Series 3

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1960s comedy, with Michael Medwin and Fenella Fielding, focusing on the advertising world.

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